Being in terrible need of personal rating boost after total failure of his world domination escapades, KGB thug Putin decided to pull his favorite trick – just like in `99 when his goons bombed apartment blocks in Moscow to start a genocide war in Chechnya and justify restoration of GULAG state. But it would be a grave mistake to call Putin (who remains a small-time street thug despite his presidential status) a forerunner here because terrorism has always been a cornerstone of communism, the most perverse and corrupt ideology which he openly admires and tries to reanimate.